The Media Loves Joe Biden’s Assassination Jokes

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is in the wrong political party to get away with telling jokes about violence.

So when he told a crowd in North Carolina that “there could be another way” to stop rival Hillary Clinton, the condemnation started flying from all corners of the mainstream media.

“Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish the Second Amendment. By the way, and if she gets to pick, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks,” Trump said. “Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is. I don’t know.”

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Trump later defended the comment in a Facebook post:

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CNN pushed the issue, asking “what did he mean?” while washed-up former network anchor Dan Rather called it a ‘new low’ in American politics.

But was it?

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There was no criticism of then-Sen. Joe Biden in 2008 when he made virtually the same joke, only taking it further.

“I guarantee ya. Barack Obama ain’t takin’ my shotgun, so don’t buy that malarkey, don’t buy that malarkey,” Biden said in September, 2008. “They’re gonna start peddlin’ that deal. I got two, if he tries to fool with my Beretta he’s got a problem. I like that little over and under — you know, I’m not bad with it.”

Biden made the case in a far more aggressive way and was never even questioned for it, because truth isn’t the objective of the mainstream media.

Donald Trump suggests that Americans might defend their rights with violence if called upon to do so, and the mainstream media howls. Joe Biden suggests that he might personally shoot Barack Obama if he tried to take his guns away, and … crickets.

Tell me about how objective the mainstream media is again. I could use a good laugh.